Bracketology 12/3/19
An extremely busy Feast Week leads to changes up and down the bracket. The biggest winner was undoubtedly Michigan, who won massive games against Iowa State, North Carolina and Gonzaga to vault up to a 2 seed. Other teams that rose due to winning their tournaments include Oklahoma State, San Diego State and West Virginia. On the losing end, Providence had a disastrous time at the Wooden Legacy and has fallen from a preseason 5 seed to out of the picture. There's other teams, like Texas Tech, VCU and Purdue, who I expect to bounce back from rough starts but just don't have much of a resume and have fallen in this projection.
We're entering the slowest part of the college basketball calendar. The ACC/Big Ten challenge this week will give some big games, but the rest of December is quite slow. We'll get a few conference games from the leagues with 20 game schedules, but other than that there's a lot of buy games between now and the New Year.
1: Louisville, Virginia, Ohio State, Kansas
2: Michigan, Gonzaga, Auburn, North Carolina
3: Michigan State, Maryland, Duke, Kentucky
4: Oklahoma State, Arizona, Dayton, Florida State
5: West Virginia, San Diego State, Butler, Tennessee
6: Colorado, Baylor, Arkansas, Oregon
7: Villanova, Utah State, St. Mary's, Purdue
8: Memphis, Seton Hall, Oklahoma, Xavier
9: Marquette, Penn State, Washington, Florida
10: VCU, Indiana, Texas Tech, DePaul
11: Texas, Mississippi State, Liberty, (Virginia Tech/LSU)
12: (Stanford/Temple), Furman, Northern Iowa, Vermont
13: UTEP, Toledo, Delaware, Penn
14: Belmont, South Dakota, New Mexico State, Texas State
15: Stephen F. Austin, Colgate, UC Irvine, Rider
16: Wright State, Sacramento State, (Winthrop/St. Francis PA), (Bethune Cookman/Texas Southern)
First Four Out: Wichita State, Iowa, Illinois, NC State
Next Four Out: Richmond, Oregon State, Furman, Duquesne
Bids by Conference:
Big 10: 7
Big 12: 7
SEC: 7
ACC: 6
Big East: 6
Pac-12: 5
American: 2
Atlantic 10: 2
Mountain West: 2
West Coast: 2
We're entering the slowest part of the college basketball calendar. The ACC/Big Ten challenge this week will give some big games, but the rest of December is quite slow. We'll get a few conference games from the leagues with 20 game schedules, but other than that there's a lot of buy games between now and the New Year.
1: Louisville, Virginia, Ohio State, Kansas
2: Michigan, Gonzaga, Auburn, North Carolina
3: Michigan State, Maryland, Duke, Kentucky
4: Oklahoma State, Arizona, Dayton, Florida State
5: West Virginia, San Diego State, Butler, Tennessee
6: Colorado, Baylor, Arkansas, Oregon
7: Villanova, Utah State, St. Mary's, Purdue
8: Memphis, Seton Hall, Oklahoma, Xavier
9: Marquette, Penn State, Washington, Florida
10: VCU, Indiana, Texas Tech, DePaul
11: Texas, Mississippi State, Liberty, (Virginia Tech/LSU)
12: (Stanford/Temple), Furman, Northern Iowa, Vermont
13: UTEP, Toledo, Delaware, Penn
14: Belmont, South Dakota, New Mexico State, Texas State
15: Stephen F. Austin, Colgate, UC Irvine, Rider
16: Wright State, Sacramento State, (Winthrop/St. Francis PA), (Bethune Cookman/Texas Southern)
First Four Out: Wichita State, Iowa, Illinois, NC State
Next Four Out: Richmond, Oregon State, Furman, Duquesne
Bids by Conference:
Big 10: 7
Big 12: 7
SEC: 7
ACC: 6
Big East: 6
Pac-12: 5
American: 2
Atlantic 10: 2
Mountain West: 2
West Coast: 2
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